No time for ‘talking points’

Just when I think that we’re finally getting some honesty, transparency and “how do we go forward to healing?” this happens. We have the USCCB ignore everything else and go on to make abortion the issue as the Catholic Church faces an historic confrontation with an evil called pedophilia and the cover-up. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is promoting a special season of prayer for a “change in the Supreme Court.” Without mentioning Brett Kavanaugh (who is one scary guy, based on his legal documents) by name, the bishops have launched a nine-week “Novena for the Legal Protection of Human Life” which is all about abortion, with no mention of any of the other life issues the pope has been raising of capital punishment, abuse of immigrants and refugees, war or poverty, not to mention pedophilia and immoral cover-ups. Catholics across America are yearning for honesty and transparency about the church’s past and future. Instead they’re being given yet more bulletin inserts with religious-right talking points about Roe v. Wade.